Tuesday's Art Notes

_Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Most rehearses with the "Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra":http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en&cccpage=news_detail&set_z_news=833 for the upcoming traditional New Years' Concert on December 27, 2010 in Vienna. Photo by Dieter Nagl/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * The Library of Congress rolls out its list of latest additions to the National Film Registry, which includes several popular Hollywood hits like _The Exorcist_, _Saturday Night Fever_, _Airplane!_, and _The Pink Panther_, as well as early, obscure or experimental films like _Preservation of the Sign Language_ (1913) and _Tarantella_ (1940), via "The Washington Post":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122800690.html. * Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks _The Wizard of Oz_ needs to be updated, via "The New York Times' Arts Beat":http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/the-man-behind-the-curtain-lloyd-webber-plans-changes-to-wizard-of-oz/. * Spanish-speaking TV viewers in the U.S. have been watching a special new hybrid primetime soap opera: the bollywood _telenovela_, via the "Los Angeles Times":http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-telefutura-india-20101227,0,3443643.story. * John Warhola, the older brother of Andy Warhol who helped reer the artist and later helped to found an eponymous museum in Pittsburgh in his honor, has died at age 85, via "The Washington Post":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/27/AR2010122703052.html. * Roger Ebert "nominates":http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/movies-1/man-in-a-blizzard-by-jamie-stu.html a film for the best short Academy Award (made just this week during the blizzard in New York).